Byron Katie Quotes

“People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.”

People Trying Hard Letting Go Behavior Negative Addiction Negative Thoughts Short Time Hard To Let Go Negative Behavior

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“Freedom is our birthright.”

Birthright

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“The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.”

World Mind Long War

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“The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.”

World Mind Doe War Produce

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“I love the world, because I love the mind that created the world.”

World Mind

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“I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don't love it, question your mind until you do.”

Ifs Mind Given Goodness

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“I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.”

I Can Ends Jobs Suffering

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“With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.”

Moments Stories Painful Inquiry

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“I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.”

Conditions Decades Severe Suicidal Katie

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“One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.”

Suffering Morning Realization Instant Stressful February Katie

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“I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!”

People I Can Enough Love Is Intimate Being Free

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“The more you reveal, the more you have to question and the freer you get. Until, finally, you're absolutely exposed. And that leaves you in a fearless position, because you can work in the world without the fear of being found out. That is freedom.”

World Found Position Fearless Exposed

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“Joy is a natural way of being.”

Way Joy Natural

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“Sadness isn't a natural response.”

Natural Sadness Response

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“It's for each of us to look at what we really do believe - what our belief system really consists of.”

Believe Looks Belief Belief Systems

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“So, how can we live in joy - and how can we know that we're supposed to live in joy the way people tell us to - when we're believing thoughts that bring on sadness and frustration and anger and alienation and loneliness? When we're believing those thoughts, we think that's the world, rather than what we're believing about the world. We're like lost little children.”

People Thinking Knows World Way Believe Children Littles Joy Lost Sadness Loneliness Frustration Alienation

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“It's very benign, it seems, to think, "There's a tree." In fact, it's a very beautiful thought. If someone chops down all the trees, then we think, "Oh, my goodness, something is out of order in my world." We begin to think, "Who am I in a world without trees?"”

Ifs Thinking World Facts Seems Beautiful Order Tree Goodness Very Beautiful Benign Beautiful Thoughts

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“The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.”

World

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“I live in a state of grace, where I don't have to know.”

Knows States Grace

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“We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."”

People Thinking Hands Rooms Thousand Raises Stealing

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“Reality is: Should people steal in this world? Yes. How do I know they should? They all do.”

People Knows World Should Reality This World Stealing

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“I shouldn't steal in this world.”

World This World Stealing

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“I'm the one I need to work with.”

Needs

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“I'm the one who changes the world if I can follow what I think should and shouldn't be lived in this world.”

Ifs Thinking World Should I Can This World Changing The World

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“I have a list of universal beliefs, and they are amazing beliefs, like, "No one cares" or "You don't care about me"; "I should be successful" or "I'm not successful"; "I don't have enough money"; "I'm too tall or thin or fat"; "I shouldn't have done it" - oh, my goodness, they go on and on and on.”

Should Done Enough Care Belief Successful Goes On Goodness Universal Don't Care Lists Fats Being Successful Tall No One Cares

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“I like to say understanding is the power.”

Understanding

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“The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.”

Mind

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“The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.”

Ultimate Our Thoughts

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“As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.”

World Stories Intellect

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“Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.”

Questioning Stressful

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“If our stressful thoughts aren't true, what does that leave? It leaves, "I am loveable" - the very thing I could never make myself believe, because "I'm unloveable" overrides it when the chips are down.”

Ifs Believe Doe Chips Stressful

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“What we believe, we see.”

Believe

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“We cannot see what we don't believe.”

Believe Don't Believe

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“When people are talking about manifesting, we can say, "I want a car, I want a car, I want a car," but if the mind is running, "I don't deserve it, I'll never be able to afford it, I'll never be a success" - if all those things are running - then those things are what we're really manifesting. They are exactly what's running our life. And as long as we believe those thoughts, thinking positively is not strong enough to override our negative beliefs.”

“I think that's the trick: wanting what I have.”

Thinking Tricks

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“Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.”

Way Stills Hate Morning Cases Alive Wake Up Killing Breathing Hopeless Contemplating Self Hate Hate Myself Killing Myself Hate Life Hate God

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“I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.”

Able Teeth Brushes Paranoid

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“I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.”

Believe Self Night Sleep Self Esteem Bed Lows Rage Esteem Every Night

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“One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.”

Years I Can Eye Joy Sleep Morning Darkness Feet Lays Cockroaches

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“No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape.”

Ifs Dies Alive

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“I like to say it was born out of laughter.”

Born Laughter

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“The world is a projection of our thoughts - the thoughts we believe.”

World Believe Our Thoughts Projection

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“I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.”

People World I Can Hearing Familiar Relate

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“Those questions - when you think about a thought, when you're believing a thought or concept and you question it - you realize that it changes things. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry.”

Thinking Believe Body Realizing Concepts Your Body Cells Awake Inquiry

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“Every mind deserves to be free.”

Mind Deserve

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“It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.”

Mind Wake Up Constant

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“I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.”

People Thinking Way Believe Used Joy Goes On Understood Concepts Statements Depressing

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“The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free.”

World Mind Use Craziness Mind Free

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“Until you can love what is - everything, including the apparent violence and craziness - you're separate from the world, and you'll see it as dangerous and frightening.”

World Violence Dangerous Including Frightening Craziness

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“When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.”

Should War Turns Iraq Turnaround

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